Floor of stars: hotels and real estate in the city of Sao Paulo, 1995-2005. / Chão de estrelas: hotelaria e produção imobiliária em São Paulo, 1995-2005

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

In the period between 1995 and 2005 the hotel industry in the city of Sao Paulo experienced an unprecedented quantitative growth in its history. This growth has been considered as overstated by experts and professionals of the area and generated a significant crisis proclaimed by investors, hotel chains, developers and others, which is enough to bring about some doubts regarding the real need of increasing the hotel supply during the early 90?s, in the city of Sao Paulo. This research works with the hypothesis that this expansion was not only oriented by the existence of any demand for hotel rooms, but also by the identification of a demand for urban spaces. Therefore, the decision of building new hotels would be justified by some other knotty interests. The understanding of the interests involved in this situation is vital in order to apprehend the nature of the relationship between hotel and real state industries. The analysis of this problem has been carried on through the investigation of the way hotel development in Sao Paulo was conducted as far as its business format, administrative nature, aesthetics of projects, role of each player involved with the implementation of new hotels and also the movement of spatial distribution of hotels within the urban space of the city of Sao Paulo. Results of this analysis show that this recent growth of the hotel supply in Sao Paulo was possible only due to the constitution of a group of social players around a common interest: the production of new urban spaces required by a city with global characteristics. The arrangement of a new business format that turns the hotel room into a residential unit brings about the opportunity of presenting this residential unit as a real estate investment alternative and establishes the association between hotel and construction industries. The huge exploration of this model ? known as flat service ? in Sao Paulo clearly discloses the way through which hotel industry can play a functioning role in this dynamic and rational process of producing new urban spaces, so typical of the real estate industry as well as the capitalism and also shows how this partnership can be led in a planned, coordinated and cooperative way.

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hotel industry espaço urbano incorporação imobiliária urban space. real estate hotelaria

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